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tobacco became a cash crop in virginia in the year 1612
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a dutch ship sold twenty Africans to the colonists in jamestown1n 1619
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in Virginia passed laws to stop people from helping runaway enslaved persons in 1642
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slavery became law in maryland in 1664
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The greatest number of blacks were in the colonies of Virginia (2000 blacks) and MARYLAND
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22 percent of people living in Virginia and Maryland were enslaved
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31 percent of the people living maryland were enslaved persons
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Virginia and Maryland grew more than 100 million pounds of tobbaco a year